A more excellent top choice would be the United States.
When US consumption was all US manufactured goods, the standard pf living was much lower than current levels with ability to purchase many more imported affordable items.
The labor rate differential is too large between USA and Asian countries, for example. Americans are addicted to Walmart prices, and they will vote for politicians who promote those policies. What this country really needs to do is punish those countries who subsidize high-tech products. For example Airbus in Europe gets much more help from their governments than Boeing does from US govt.